[@EchoicChamber]

Nick was trying to figure out what was happening.

It had been little while since he'd started observing the surrounded building, and he had almost considered approaching it. Thankfully however, he wasn't [i]that[/i] stupid. Even from the distance he was keeping, it wasn't difficult to see that the forces surrounding the small house were [i]stupidly[/i] well equipped. 

The fact that moving to close seemed to prevent him from summoning more weapons only reinforced his original thoughts.

Still, it wasn't like he could just leave! Sure, it might [i]look[/i] like one of the factional militaries hunting down bandits, but what if it wasn't? What if it was something darker, and leaving would mean condemning anyone inside? He couldn't just do something like that!

The main problem was just trying to figure out whether that actually [i]was[/i] the case or not, because he didn't want to try and convince the surrounding force to not kill the buildings inhabitants if said inhabitants were just going to shoot him in the back...

And that was when he saw his salvation, in the form of a young boy covered in quite a bit of blood. Of course, he [i]was[/i] in the Ashlands, so being covered in blood and in decently close vicinity to a violent incident didn't always indicate involvement, or even that approaching him was any less dangerous but what else could he do? This was the best lead he had!

"Hey, kid!" He shouted, running over to the boy. "Do you know anything about what's going on over there in that building? Maybe anything about the people inside? I want to try and prevent as much killing as possible, but I need to know if the people inside will try to kill me as well."